Mr Mulally Goes To Washington
Business Week caught up with the Ford Circus road trip to Washington for a telephone interview. Having presumably learned some lessons on that last trip, Alan is re-engaging with the wonders of road food and claims to like it! “We stopped at a dynamite service plaza and we bought a little boxed lunch.” Wow, after putting up with the crap food served on the Boeing and Ford corporate jets old Alan must be in heaven to finally get some good old fashioned Service Plaza Boxed Lunch. Somebody tell him not to eat the box, even if it does taste just like the sandwich. You have to hand it to the guy for being able to spin with the best of ’em though.
On the question of cost competitiveness visa-vis transplants, Mulally gives the toss to Gettlefinger: “UAW President Ron Gettelfinger will be with us, and you can imagine that will be part of the conversation.” Partly to make that medicine go down, Mulally has committed to reducing his own salary to $1/year IF Ford avails itself of the requested $9 billion federal line of credit. Mulally’s big job this week is to distinguish Ford from its hometown competitors while still getting as much food out of the pig trough as possible. A tough act to pull off after a long drive in an Escape hybrid and dinner at a truck stop.
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jayparry and tony-e30, I think it's pretty obvious he already knew these things. This little speech was not for us. It was to butter up the insane egos of members of Congress. "Wow, Congress has it so hard. Their work is so hard, and it must be hard to have all that responsibility. They're such great people, I just hope they'll be able to take time from their super busy schedules to listen to little old us." Obvious BS to most people, but I have a feeling Congress ate it up.